Traditional publishing models are rapidly reforming as mounting support for open access continues to soar. Last year, submissions soared by 30%, according to Springer Nature. But this demand is proving to be a double-edged sword as retracted articles have hit an all-time high in the past decade, and journals are flooded with AI-generated articles and…
The SaaS industry was built on the simple premise that software helps people do work. Every pricing model, product roadmap, and sales motion for the past two decades has been organized around that assumption. A seat is a person, a license is a user, and a renewal is what happens when that user decides the…
Fujitsu Limited announced on September 14, 2026 that it will begin global sales of FUJITSU-MONAKA, its next-generation CPU designed and developed in Japan, starting November 2026, and will launch the made-in-Japan Fujitsu MONAKA Server, a system the company positions as sovereign AI infrastructure. The processor will be sold as a standalone product to cloud and…
The world needs more homes. The world also has too much plastic. Perhaps the only thing those two problems have in common is that they’re hard to solve. Atlas Building Composites, a spinout of MIT, is on a mission to address both problems with a single solution. The company has developed an AI-powered robotic manufacturing…
MIT researchers have developed a new technique that helps generative artificial intelligence models find solutions to high-stakes problems. In these settings, a plausible answer is not enough: The output often must also satisfy nonnegotiable safety, physical, or task-specific requirements, known as hard constraints. The researchers developed a method that helps generative models meet these strict…
Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer Satya Nadella announced on September 13, 2026 that the company will publish a “Code of Conduct” underlying its first-party MAI models the following day for public consultation, in a post on X that welcomed “deliberate pacing” on AI alignment. Alignment as a Design Goal “Any pursuit of superintelligence has…
House Speaker Mike Johnson said on September 13, 2026, that Congress must resist imposing an emergency moratorium on artificial intelligence, and he proposed summoning the leaders of the major AI platforms to a White House meeting with lawmakers to settle on safety guardrails. Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, made the remarks in an interview on CNN’s…
Embeddings are dense numerical vectors learned so that items with useful semantic or behavioral relationships occupy nearby regions of a representation space. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
Hyundai Motor Group said in a September 13, 2026, announcement that it has put its Data Flywheel into full operation, detailing a dual-track autonomous driving roadmap and what it called the first showcase of its Level 2++ technology at the HMG Autonomous Driving Media Day, held at 42dot headquarters in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. During…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman committed his company on September 12, 2026, to having independent evaluators with employee-like access, endorsing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to pace frontier AI development and matching a commitment Amodei had announced earlier the same day. Altman Backs Pacing the Frontier In a post on X, Altman wrote, “Committing to…